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Advice and Information -
Find out more about how you can prevent the spread of winter norovirus -
Advice and Information -
Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments. -
Advice and Information -
Find out what support is available to help you when travelling to your GP, hospital or other NHS services. -
News -
To support our work on ambulance response times, we need your recent experiences of calling for an emergency ambulance. -
Report -
Read all about our year! -
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2017/18 has been an exciting year for us, albeit not without continuing financial challenges. -
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Together with Northamptonshire Maternity Voices Partnership, we carried out a 15 Steps Maternity Visit across both hospital trusts in Northamptonshire – Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital. This is the report for KGH. -
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Together with Northamptonshire Maternity Voices Partnership, we carried out a 15 Steps Maternity Visit across both hospital trusts in Northamptonshire – Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital. This is the report for NGH. -
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A group of young volunteers from Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire and Shooting Stars (a group for young people in Northamptonshire with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities) spent the day at the children’s areas at Kettering General Hospital. -
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Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire had a busy year during 2017-18! Check out their mini Annual Report to find out more. -
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Last year was another busy year for Healthwatch Northamptonshire! You can read all about it in our Annual Report 2016/17. -
Report -
Between October 2015 and January 2016 Healthwatch Northamptonshire (HWN) carried out our third annual ‘Make Your Voice Count’ campaign. -
Report -
Healthwatch Northamptonshire has published a report on patient experience of Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KGH) -
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Working in partnership with the local NHS, we wanted to find out what patients and staff thought of current services and how they could be improved. -
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Healthwatch Northamptonshire (HWN) was asked to provide the Care Quality Commission (CQC) with any information and intelligence we held about the experiences and views of people who have received care at Northampton General Hospital -
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Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire were given a tour and were able to meet some of the staff and speak to some patients and their parents at Northampton General Hospital. -
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Healthwatch Northamptonshire sought to find out the experiences of patients being discharged from the two general hospitals in Northamptonshire - Kettering General Hospital (KGH) and Northampton General Hospital (NGH). -
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We have published our report on the experiences of people using services provided by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT). -
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In July 2016 two Young Healthwatch volunteers visited Skylark Ward (the children’s ward) at Kettering General Hospital (KGH) in order to give feedback to the hospital about this ward from the perspective of young people. -
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To gain a better understanding of why more patient are attending A&E and whether anything can be done to prevent inappropriate attendances, NGH, with the help of Healthwatch Northamptonshire, conducted a survey of ‘walk-in’ patients attending A&E. -
Report -
Read all about our year! -
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Healthwatch volunteers and staff asked 565 people in the waiting areas at Northampton General Hospital A&E, Kettering General Hospital A&E and Corby Urgent Care Centre about their experiences of A&E and urgent care. -
Report -
Read all about our year! -
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We asked 173 people in the A&E waiting area at NGH about what other services they had tried to access before going to A&E and what their experience was -
Report -
Read all about our year! -
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During September and October 2013, Healthwatch Northamptonshire ran a campaign called “Make Your Voice Count”. -
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Healthwatch Northamptonshire Chair, David N Jones, spoke on BBC Look East about the building pressures for A&E and the changes to performance targets. -
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Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire volunteers took part in activities to find out more about Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital and to give young people a taste of future careers in the NHS -
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We all love the NHS, but let’s make it even better this year. Tell us about your experiences of health and social care, and the changes that you would like to see made locally, in our online survey. #SpeakUp2020 -
Advice and Information -
Feeling unwell? Read on for advice about where you can go for help with your health during the winter months. -
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Healthwatch Northamptonshire and NHCP NHS Long Term Plan community engagement report now published! -
News -
With growing pressure on the NHS – people living longer, more people living with long-term conditions, and lifestyle choices affecting people’s health – changes are needed to make sure everybody gets the support they need. -
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This week we were pleased to run training about NHS England's 15 Step Challenge for young people from local Young Healthwatch's across the country. -
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Join the conversation and have your say -
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This year’s State of Care shows that, thanks to the efforts of staff and leaders, the quality of health and social care has been maintained despite very real challenges and the majority of people are getting good, safe care. -
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Our September quick poll asked you how you find making an appointment with your GP surgery. Thank you to the 213 people who took part! -
Advice and Information -
How does the NHS in England work? What organisations make it up? And how is it changing over time? -
Advice and Information -
The NHS Health Check is a health check-up for adults in England aged 40 to 74. It's designed to spot early signs of stroke, kidney disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes or dementia. -
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Kettering General Hospital and Nene Clinical Commissioning Group are urging local people not to attend A&E – or visit relatives in hospitals – if they have, or have recently had, vomiting and/or diarrhoea. -
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Your questions regarding our “Out of Hours” quick poll have been answered! -
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its findings following a review of health and social care services in Northamptonshire. -
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Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire took part in Takeover Day at Kettering General Hospital. -
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Kettering General Hospital and Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire have been shortlisted for a national award for work they have undertaken with young people. -
Advice and Information -
NHS Corby Clinical Commissioning Group has successfully procured two new contracts - meaning Corby’s Urgent Care Centre (UCC) service will continue and a new service providing 1,000 extra GP related appointments a month will be on offer to patients. -
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Kettering General Hospital and Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire have won a national award for work they have undertaken with young people. -
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Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire and Shooting Stars teamed up to create a short film about their visit to Kettering General Hospital. -
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To inform future changes in the health and care system in the county, Connected Together CIC, Healthwatch Northamptonshire and Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership (NHCP), held a successful community engagement event with around 90 attendees. -
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Local people shared their views about how they want local health and care services to improve.